the Result is the second best that the Customs service reported over the past decade, only the battle of the peak year of 2017. Number of seizures of narcotic drugs was measured for 2018 to 5.553 pieces, just over 1,000 fewer than 2017. The estimated benefits to society (see box) for the agency’s seizures of drugs, doping substances, alcohol and tobacco during the year amounted to just over sek 2.6 billion.
the cocaine reached the Customs department, its highest figure in over ten years with a total of 488 kilograms seized. Two fittings sticking out in particular, 298 kilograms of cocaine in air cargo from Colombia and 95 kg in a container from Rotterdam.
” Last year was a very good växtår for the coca bush and that was why the harvest is very big in south America, and in particular Colombia. As regards the heroin owned the market of Afghanistan and that we get much here, ” says Jonas Karlsson.
is via vehicular traffic over the bridge but the highest number of seizure made by the post – and kurirflöden even if the seizures decreased from the previous year. At the same time did the Customs service not quite so large seizures in the lorry as it did in 2017.
Last spring, it was reported that the Customs service will receive an extra 72 million by the government. The majority – 52 million – will go to investments in modern technologies, such as new detection equipment and fixed cameras.
– We have bought a lot of tools that have been helpful but in 2018, we have scored the school in many new recruits. Then there will be a break where employees may act as supervisors, and then we lost, of course, a part of the operational work in some places during some periods.
about 484.000 litres of alcohol, a decrease compared with the previous year. But not much talk for the illegal importation reduces. It is rather that the incidence shifts the character, where the smugglers will much more often but with less amount of alcohol per occasion.
Even the cigarettes, performance-enhancing substances and weapons are present as in the previous year in the statistics.
– the Current weapon is fairly steady, 41 of firearms in the mixed size, mostly pistols but also some automatic weapons. Smuggling is completely different compared to the drugs because the guns can be resold several times.
doing their very utmost and the seizure of large quantities of illegal products on the way to Sweden, there are large number of unreported cases.
” We are satisfied but can not beat our chest, we only get hold of a fraction of everything. It is impossible to stop all border traffic. We would have needed to be many more.
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